What did Gerald Brenan mean by: In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. - Gerald Brenan Copy
+ Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Opinion, Wisdom, 0 - Gerald Brenan
+ Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Boredom, Boring, Oneself, 0 - Gerald Brenan
+ Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Age, Aging, 0 - Gerald Brenan
+ Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Age, Death, War, 0 - Gerald Brenan
+ Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Artist, 0 - Gerald Brenan
+ The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Age, Literature, Writing, 0 - Gerald Brenan
+ We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gerald Brenan, Butterfly, Relaxation, 0 - Gerald Brenan
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
A man who doesn’t make you feel special, wanted or important would make a very poor husband. - Jeanne Phillips Columnist
girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests. - Jeffrey Eugenides Author
I hope that when I’m 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding. - Jennifer Hudson Singer
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. - Jeremy Taylor Clergyman · England
